alignment
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This failure, the authors explain, was driven by a violation of incentive alignment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The shadow cast by the alignment of Sun and Moon creates a strange twilight during which temperatures drop, shadows appear at strange angles and some animals go to sleep.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The cosmic event requires the sun, the moon and the earth to be in a perfect alignment.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
That’s just an alignment of my values and opportunities that seems almost blessed at the moment, but it’s not effortful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wielding a pocket Allen wrench, her colleague Estefany Rodriguez adjusted seat heights and brake handle alignments on Vivian’s new ride.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“But on any given day, financial investors are in fact oblivious to fundamental shifts in global alignments or worrying attacks on U.S. institutions,” he writes.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
The discovery may also help refine models of intrinsic galaxy alignments, which can interfere with measurements in upcoming weak lensing surveys.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
He reshuffled diplomatic alignments to buy time, giving the U.S. a stronger position by the following decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The hands glide to indicate the proper time, the planetary alignments set themselves in order.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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